In 1521 the London printer Henry Pepwell published a small anthology of contemplative writing, edited here with notes and an introduction. It includes an English version of Richard of St. Victor on the soul’s preparation for contemplation, passages from Catherine of Siena and Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton on the song of angels, and epistles on prayer, discretion and the discerning of spirits by the author of The Cloud of Unknowing.
A treasury for readers of Julian of Norwich and the English mystics. Download the free EPUB.